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Jeff Chiplis |
HEAD IN AN ELECTRIC OVEN (FOR SYLVIA)
There she is:
my Goddess. She lives:
defying the myth.
The attempt I tried to emulate.
Being blind to the domestic;
finding the stove was electric.
Too shy, to introduce
my failed self.
I shuffle over,
To catch her words.
The faithful bow
and scrape.
‘Was it really you,
made Larkin
accept “The Laureate”?’
‘Ha-Ha! “A happy funeral”
put pay to his crowing.’
‘Who?’
‘That bloody Yorkshire man!’
‘Oh.’
‘One day I’ll have my death of him.’
‘Hasty words.’
‘Instead, I denied him
his best collection:
by forgetting to pay the gas.’
Sue Johns
SUE JOHNS was born in Cornwall in 1958. Now living in London, she is a veteran of the performance poetry circuit, performing solo and with Dodo Modern Poets. She has performed at festivals around the U.K. including the Edinburgh fridge. Sue has published six volumes of poetry and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies.
JEFFREY CHIPLIS ' outsider art consists of recycled neon recontextualized outside its original commercial use. His pieces include spelled out pieces of wit, three dimensional art such as "Bonfire, 2002" and pictorial works such as "House on Fire, 1997" installed on walls. His work can be found in galleries and bars in Cleveland, Ohio.
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